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Rating: really liked it
2/5 ⭐
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Pretending I am on a gorgeous Caribbean beach, drinking coconut water and listening to some distant bachata music while reading this book and not actually reading it in my room far away from any beach within reach.
Well, now I’m glad I didn’t have it with me on any beach (or, truth be said, I didn’t go to any beach whatsoever).
The main reason for my affirmation:
I DNF-ed this. Yep, that’s right. Maybe it’s a surprise, but not a shock. The ones who have already read that know what I mean.
Nocturna is my first DNF of the year. I am truly sorry to say that.
At first, I thought it had so much potential, I really wanted it to be good. I was making myself think that it will be good and I am going to like it. Unfortunately, I’ve encountered stuff that couldn’t let me enjoy it.
To imagine how exactly I felt, picture me as a cute little girl with long braids and an airy skirt jumping up and down with a basket in my hand, ready to pick some flowers and berries. I am even whistling. After a while, I stop: I think I see the flowers in the meadow! Oh, happiness! But, when I am so close to them, suddenly from nowhere a huge fence erects, standing between me and the beautiful flowers I want to pick up. I want to climb up the fence, but I see it is electrified. And also a storm is coming up so I might very well go home. It is not worth it.
This is exactly how I felt after reading not even half of it.
Disappointed. 
I thought the action was very slow. I felt like that amazing page-turner effect wasn’t there. It felt a bit "in the tree" as we like to say in Romanian. Somehow it felt unfinished.
And also, I found the chapters agonisingly long.
The world construction wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t good either. Maybe at this part, I felt the feeling of the whole plot
trying. Trying to go somewhere, to do something. Fighting to go better. But it felt too much as a struggle and it made the reading a bit uncomfortable (for me! I don’t generalise!).
Even the characters seemed to struggle too much to find their own personalities. And this is not quite okay, even though I know this is a YA Fantasy book and the characters tend to have changes of personalities every 10 pages. It is okay to change the personality throughout the book but at least set the right basis for it.
It breaks my heart to say this so, but it is true.
The best thing about this though? It actually helped me gain a bit of vocabulary in Spanish so for that I will totally give out an extra star.
It was a really well-thought thing to blend the Spanish words in (or at least this is coming from the trashy language learner inside of me). It is a very good way to make people aware of one’s culture and also educate the population a bit. Ignorance kills, children!
My only problem now is: if Spanish speakers wanted to read this book in Spanish without knowing the words for magic are said, originally, in Spanish, would anyone notice the aspect of Spanish-words-used-in-the-book as I did (me, a non-native Spanish speaker)?
(Book-styled)
Rating: really liked it
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THE GOODIES
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!! I was hoping to love this book!! It’s so pretty inside and out, the pages had their own special magic BUT I didn’t like it much!! And I hated that one of the main characters name was shortened to the nickname of Alfie! Felt like I was reading the movie A Christmas Story but with Alfie instead of Ralphie. Don’t ask, I’m weird.
I’m sure this book will be for lots of people just not for me 😕
Happy Reading!
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
Rating: really liked it
✨ A review to check out: Johely's!
"Magic could not speak, yet interacting with it felt like a conversation, a dance, a story shared with a friend with the ending left up to interpretation."
This was our September 2020 pick for the Dragons & Tea Book Club, and I loved it so much. This is a story about identity, classism, privilege, freedom, honoring your culture and the past regardless of who tries to erase it, and respecting boundaries unapologetically.
This is a story about a boy named Elfie, who is the crown prince and can wield water magic in this world. He has been away for three months, grieving a brother who everyone thinks is dead. But now that he is back in his city, he meets Fin who can change appearances and maybe help him become someone else, too. It turns into a spy mission, involving stolen books, black magic, and erasing a language that still belongs to them. And Finn and Alfie realize they are both harboring an immense grief and trying to heal from abuse and their past.
This is such a beautiful book that I feel like is so underrated, which is an actual crime because the layers of this story render me speechless alone. Everything is also a love letter to Latine / South American culture and a mirror to the erasure still from colonization today. My heart was extra full at the way Spanish is also woven into this story constantly. I truly recommend this fantasy to everyone, and I am so honored that we picked it for a book club pick! Also, that ending? I need book two immediately!
Trigger & Content Warnings: anxiety, loss of a loved one, grief deception, talk of slavery, blood depiction, drinking, vomiting, gore, murder, torture, slavery, controlling, and abuse.
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Rating: really liked it
ugh. this is the third book in a row where i am just feeling so uninvested. is... is this what a reading slump feels like? im not quite sure how i feel about that, or this book, tbh.
from an objective standpoint, theres a bit going for this story. the latinx culture is fun and exciting and something i havent read a lot of (even if the plot is one i have -
*cough* a darker shade of magic
*cough*). the writing is impressive for a debut and the pacing is good with decent world building.
from a subjective view, gosh, i just couldnt fully immerse myself into the story or deeply care about the characters and their actions/motives. again, im pretty sure this a problem with me, not the story itself.
also, im not quite sure how i feel about this being a series. i mean, the story is pretty well resolved. i dont see how it can be drawn out unless the following two books deal with different stories set in the same world, because theres nothing really to be continued from this particular book.
anyway, even if this isnt quite everything i wanted, i know this is a story that a lot of people will enjoy and have good reason to.
↠ 3.5 stars
Rating: really liked it
I had hoped to love this book. And yet, somewhere deep in my little heart I knew, knew almost for certain, that I wouldn’t. That it was almost too good to be true.Now I’ve read it and lo and behold, I did not, in fact, love this book.
Some of you may or may not know this about me, but I am Dominican. I was born and partially raised in The Dominican Republic, a small, Spanish speaking island in the Carribean, where the sun always shines and the beaches are always blue. So, to hear that an author was going to write a fantasy novel based on her Dominican heritage I was nothing if not completely on board.
So, you can only imagine how disappointed I was when this book was only superficially Latinx and could have otherwise been set in any generic European-esque kingdom.The book talked about some Hispanic foods: sweet plantains, which I love, the adobo seasoned chicken, and some other things. It used Spanish words for magic, which I gotta say, doesn’t sound as magical when you actually speak the language. Alfie would say magic words like, “Alargar” and “Parar” and magic would happen, except that these are the Spanish verbs ‘to elongate’ and ‘to stop’ and those don’t sound all that magical when you think about it. But it can’t be helped, I suppose. It’s not the book’s fault that I’m not impressed by Spanish words.
Overall culturally, there wasn’t much to distinguish it from every other fantasy out there.The bible says that there is “no new thing under the sun”. So, I don’t so much look for originality in plot lines but rather for the execution of said plots because let’s be real, most books fall under the same plotlines and the same tropes, and character outlines, and still, we read them.
That said, there has been an overwhelming amount of people comparing this book to A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, to the point that they claim that Nocturna is nothing more than a blatant rip-off.I read ADSOM a few years ago and didn’t love it. It was an ok book for me and I really didn’t like Laila Bard. I had barely remembered that book while reading this one if I’m honest. It wasn’t until I started reading some people’s reviews that I began to think back on the other story and point out some similarities. And trust me, there are many similarities in plot, characterization, magic, and even the ending.
But, as I mentioned, there is no new thing under the sun. Had this book executed that plot in a more enjoyable way, I wouldn’t have minded as much. But alas, it did not.
The writing in this book is pretty decent. It’s not amazing, but it was easy to read. There were some moments that felt a little info-dumpish but that’s the way it is with fantasy sometimes. The characters are alright. I found that their motivations shifted rather quickly though. They also made a lot of questionable choices, but what YA character doesn’t.
There is a shift in the plot that I didn’t expect. It started out as being about one thing, mostly Alfie finding his brother, but then that takes a back seat and the plot became about something else. This is also a thing that happens a lot in books and doesn’t really bother me so long as the change in the plot is engaging and it all connects in the end. I’m not sure how well this book pulled that off.
Overall, I liked that this was a Latinx fantasy, or that it tried to be. Latin American culture is extremely diverse. The Carribean Islands have a culture unlike Central America, which is different in culture from South America and all the individual countries are so rich with history and culture and traditions and it’s beautiful. We’ve seen a lot of Asian fantasy lately, and African fantasy is on the rise and I’m so happy about it.
Now I want to see some Latin American fantasy take the stage. I want a book that fully throws you into the culture it’s depicting, not just brushes the surface as I feel this book did.So yeah, there you have it. I don’t think this book lived up to what it could have been. But maybe I’m just a hater? Oh, well.
Also, y’all gotta check out this book trailer. No offense, but it’s actually kind of ridiculous how cringy it is. It’s like a bad video game upload, but with overly dramatic yet anticlimactic narration.
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Rating: really liked it
Any unabashedly good reviews of this book must be from people who either have never read V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic Trilogy, or who do not care when a book's entire plot is lifted from another source.
Several sources, in fact. Because beyond the egregious ripping-off of Schwab's trilogy, even the tiny, different details are often easily traceable back to other sources, from which they have just as blatantly been stolen and cobbled.
I've been annoyed at books before for stealing basic plot from popular series.
Wicked Saints, for one, reminded me too much of Bardugo's Grisha series, as did
Red Queen. There were dozens of teen vampire books that flooded bookshelves after
Twilight, and after the Harry Potter series there were yet more dozens of magic school books.
But those books, while sometimes coming too obviously close to the line, for the most part were "inspired" by the worlds they copped from. The plot as a whole tended to be new, or the characters were different, or the magic system had been very changed, or the whole thematic point of the book had been shifted.
Nocturna not only steps right up to that line, it barrels across it in ways that are just unforgivable.
I have never read a book that stole
so much from its source material. It's not
just that the main characters, Alfie, Finn, and Luka, are essentially copy-paste Kell, Lila, and Rhy. It's not
just that the magic system is eerily similar, except for a few teensy tweaks. It's not
just that the dark magic villain comes to power in exactly the same way, moves through human hosts in exactly the same way, and is defeated in exactly the same way. And it's not
just that the thematic points of the book are overwhelmingly the same. It is
all of these and much more.
And it's absolutely deliberate. I spent over half the book dreaming of having a PDF version where I could search-and-find and count all of the
many,
many times this novel uses the phrase "shades." "Shades of magic." "Different shades." "Darker shades." Over and over and over, as if Motayne
wanted you to know that she plagiarized from another author's series. But yet couldn't, apparently, be bothered to even mention that series in her acknowledgements (I checked, not that I expected her really to admit it).
As for the rest of it? The stuff that's not copped from Shades of Magic?
Well, you have a prison breakout scene that could be straight out of a Bardugo book.
You also have a relationship between two main characters that is
almost exactly Jessica Jones and Kilgrave.
Other than that, there's not much different to be honest. And it got to the point where those things that were, I did not trust to be unique from Motayne's mind either. If I didn't recognize it immediately from another person's work, I started assuming it must just be because I hadn't read the work it was stolen from yet. It's
that bad.
And the worst, truly the worst, part of all of this is...Despite lifting things from so many sources, not perfect ones of course but ones that nevertheless got the literary job done...
This book was legitimately terrible.
The character motivations constantly shifted for no reason: "I want to find my brother who maybe isn't dead, but then again I guess he's dead and I never have to think about him again womp;" "I want my daughter to be dead for what she did to me but then I guess I want her to be alive and love me again but then I guess I want her dead but maybe also alive." It was nearly impossible to keep track of anyone's arc in this thing because no one had a clear one, and the backgrounds of every character became so jumbled and lost that you started just expecting to have nothing be satisfying at the end by about a third of the way through.
The plot was also an incoherent mess. The main characters all had what I can only describe as a Harry Potter complex - the need to do everything by themselves, because they were the only ones who could stop the evil!...but, in fact, literally none of them had even the basic qualifications for fighting off the "evil," and there were I assume hundreds of actual military members and powerful magic-users who would have been much better suited to helping. The whole thing took place over what actually seemed to be 2-3 days, and felt that quick, too, as the characters mostly just jumped from plot-contrived scene to plot-contrived scene. Nothing felt earned, nothing felt connected, and by the end I was literally rolling my eyes as I read it because I could not believe that the reader could be expected to actually believe anything that was happening or care.
At the beginning of this book, I was fine with it. It was refreshing to see a YA fantasy world from a Latinx author, based on her Dominican heritage. It was quite cool to have the magic system work with Spanish words, instead of the typical Latin. It was clearly similar to Shades of Magic, but wasn't a blatant ripoff.
But by the middle, everything I had liked was gone. The world-building becomes shoddy at best, with mentions of sangria and sugarcane really the only things that separate it from any other typical fantasy world. By the end of the book, the references to these actually seemed
out of place and jarring, that's how directly like Shades of Magic it had become. The Spanish continues throughout, which is fine, but without a rich culture to back it up, it starts to feel more like a gimmick than anything else.
The back of my ARC has a picture of Motayne, smiling. When I turned to look at it, that's when I really knew how much this book angered me. Because all I could think was,
You haven't earned the right to smile. This isn't your book. It's other people's books. And I hope you don't earn a cent more for it.Kirkus Reviews has already commented that getting a second book out of this world will be difficult, because of the lack of culture and world-building.
But I think I can tell you exactly how Motayne is going to pull out a second book. And a third.
There's going to be a magic tournament. And then the dark magic is going to come back from the void.
Maybe after, they'll all go to Red London for drinks.
Rating: really liked it
ARC provided in exchange for honest review 🔮
Rating: really liked it
i always wanted to read a latino-inspired ya fantasy. there are lots of fantasies inspired in europe or the us. even arabic-inspired. but i searched and searched for something latino, something like
nocturna, and i never found it.
thankfully, maya motayne exists. and her book is AMAZING!
the world-building is incredible. i’m gonna be honest with you: when i started reading it, i couldn’t stop thinking that nocturna is actually
a darker shade of magic, but in south america. but, as the story progressed, the more the world was well-built and it completely showed for what it came for.
the characters were well-written and flawed. i loved all of them. period. except the villain, of course, i wanted him to choke.
the writing was lyrical, metaphorical and deep. i am a huge fan of metaphorical writing and, not only she gave me what i always wanted, maya delivered it in That Writing!!!! ICONIC.
the plot was perfectly sewed. everything happened for a reason. and all this events were tied in the end, even stuff that happened pre-book. just amazing.
the main characters had such chemistry. the romance—or the start of it—was soooooo good. i want them to marry and have babies.
the light-dark duality was so interestingly built. there is a plot in this book about light and dark, and it works around showing was that we are actually built with both inside of us. i just love it.
That Latino™ Stuff. WOW. that’s what i’m talking about. castallan is a country that is clearly a mixture of south american countries. including brazil. i said in an update that it’s very common for foreign stuff to talk about latino countries and completely ignore brazil in that matter. we are mostly not considered latinos because we don’t speak spanish. but maya included us and i couldn’t be more thankful.
the characters speak mostly spanish, but castallan had sugarcane fields. the magical words were in spanish, but there were
dueños (spanish) and
bruxos (portuguese). i think you get my point.
reading this book was a delight. an embrace. i highly recommend!
Rating: really liked it
Welcome to San Cristobal, a Latinx kingdom laced with magic and grappling with homegrown treachery and a colonial past. When the true heir to the throne is assassinated, reluctant Prince Alfehr joins forces with a chameleon of a street thief to save the kingdom from an ancient evil. In the process, they may find a way to save each other.
Fantasy fans will embrace the creative worldbuilding and welcome these flawed and multi-layered characters into their hearts.
Rating: really liked it
I've been emotionally destroyed by the softest boy and the baddest girl to ever grace this earth. and I'm not fine. where is my emotional support Luka when I need one?
Rating: really liked it
So this was a realy boring book😣 , the beginning is great , you meet fin and she is also great but ugh I just couldn't stand alfie and the plot of the book is a great idea but it didn't worked in this book it was to long and so boring towards the end I just skipped some parts , had realy high hopes but this book didn't deliverd that , 2 ⭐⭐
Rating: really liked it
A face-shifting thief, who steals more than just food and coin to survive but also the faces of those she meets, and a prince, with a magical doorknob to lead him directly to wherever he wants in the world, combine in an unprecedented interweaving of fates.
The former, Finn Voy, seeks to escape the dark shadow dominating her past but finds herself with a new foe to duel with, when she aligns her plight with the Prince's. Prince Alfehr is not concerned with ruling the kingdom but only in seeking the brother who was stolen from him and now considered dead. He disbelieves these rumours and searches for answers in dark and forgotten magic. But instead of finding a brother returned he unwittingly unleashes an ancient magic, which seeks to take the kingdom and his people for its own.
This magic system is the most inventive and unique I have experienced for such a long time. The initial portion was a little dense, because of this, but Motayne ensured her readers were provided a proper basis in which to understand this complex system, before the action truly started.
I also loved both central characters. They were disparate in personality but both were aligned in the instant adoration I felt for them. Finn is an unapologetic badass whilst Alfie is a precious little cinnamon roll, and seeing these polar opposites interact provided some hilarious incidents that nicely offset the surrounding tension. Their dialogue was sarcastic as they continually sought to test their wits against each other and both proved stubborn and spiteful, at first. These feelings slowly thawed, as the novel progressed, and this was one of the best instances of enemies to lovers I have seen documented.
The only slight mar in this otherwise stellar read was the slightly stodgy pace, I have already mentioned. However, the unique magic system, intriguing world, and authentic characters all made this undoubtedly one fantasy book to keep on your radar, for 2019, and ensured Maya Motayne a future auto-buy author for me, from now on.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the author, Maya Motayne, and the publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, for this opportunity.
Rating: really liked it
Nocturna revolves around Prince Alfehr (Alfie), who has become crown prince after his brothers disappearance, and Finn, a shapeshifting thief. When an ancient evil threatens to destroy the Kingdom, they must band together to fight it.
I feel like Nocturna had promise in its premise, but the execution left much to be desired. The writing was overly descriptive without saying much, the world-building took a backseat, and the characters felt very superficial. While I liked the Latin American inspired elements, and the hints at the exploration of the effects of colonialism, these aspects could’ve been more developed.
I have seen other people comparing this to A Darker Shade of Magic, and while I can see some parallels, Schwab's writing is far superior.
Rating: really liked it
3rd time read & review.Since this is the third time around, I'm not sure if I have anything new to say about
Nocturna. I will admit that I still enjoyed the audiobook but that's because the narrators did amazing. Seriously, they did. It's also interesting to admit that my rating changed once again. I don't really remember what it was the first time around, but the second time it went to 3 stars. This time it's up to 4 and everything feels right once again.
The characters are still entertaining and giving me GOT and HP vibes. I'm still excited to dive into the sequel because it hasn't happened yet. Luckily, for me, I have it within reach and can't wait to see what happens next. I need more from everyone, and I need more vibes as well.
In the end, I hope it doesn't break my heart because I'm not prepared for that outcome.
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Definitely loved diving into this re-read because I'm super excited for the sequel. After diving in my physical book, I was really excited to do the audio version today. I'm not going to lie, the narrators did an amazing job. There's just something about Alfie and Finn that always sucks me in. I mean Finn is basically Arya in disguise. The girl who has no name and no face. I loved it.
So when they started working together, well.. I was fangirling a bit here and there. The last time I read this was in 2019, so I was really happy that I remembered a lot of things this time around. Doesn't mean that I wasn't surprised at others or have answers to all my questions.. because that will never happen.
Never.
All I want is a damn reunion in the next book. Oh, and happiness. For them.
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Ugh another book that I never reviewed or rated.
Nocturna was a book that I got from my Fairyloot box. I was really excited because the synopsis sounded amazing. Heck, I even got a buddy to read this with and yet - I feel like something was missing.
In it, you will meet Alfie and Finn. Alfie is the crown prince who goes into detective mode because he doesn't believe his brother is dead. Nope, so he goes out on an adventure to find magic and stuff. Then there's Finn, who is a thief and kind of a bad ass. She has zero regrets about what she does because she needs to stay alive.
It doesn't hurt one bit when these two teamed up. If I'm being honest, it probably made the book a bit better in my eyes. I liked these two character but I wasn't obsessed or in love with them completely. They were just enjoyable to read about and I wanted to see where this book was going to take me.
In the end, these two definitely have some stuff that they need to work on. I need more scheming to be done in the next book. Heck, I just need these two period and more schemes. Definitely more schemes.
Rating: really liked it
Check out more reviews @ Perspective of a Writer...The BuzzLATINX WORLD! Yeah, so I've lived among Latin people for years and love the food, culture and language. It really excited me to read that we'd get a fantasy world inspired by a rarely seen culture. And come one... how can I not be excited for a character that can change their face!?
The PremiseWhen I started Nocturna I had totally forgotten what the premise had said about it. The only thing I remembered what that it was Latinx!! Right away I was captured by Prince Alfehr's passionate desire to save his brother. This totally captured me!! How would he obtain the magic he needed?! And when we met Finn I wondered how she fit in... How would being able to change her face help the prince find his brother?! I was so excited for Alfie to find this big brother and be his rescuer...
Yeah well that was all just a gimmick. Turns out the story is really about this face changing thief and the mess she gets into by being greedy! So a little suspicious I reluctantly settle back to follow her on the job... And its all trouble of her own making.
This kind of story makes me really mad. Not because these two are being true to their age but because I don't believe that teenagers suddenly overnight (the book only covers a couple days) do what's right when before they were verging on morally grey (and actually professing to be a serial murderer!) It feels like a story crafted because the author knows what readers like to read about. The plot smacks of things arising because of contrivance rather than from the character's fears and motivations.
My ExperienceAs we get to know Finn I really appreciated that the Prince for all his soft ways gave as good as he got from her. I really appreciated that Motayne tried to flip the typical tropes on their head. And I found the magic system super intriguing. And then I got to 25% and I realized that all the setup with the brother was for naught. It had nothing really to do with the story contained in Nocturna. It was incidental back history that was presented as if it had bearing on the plot.
This really annoyed me. I signed up for one book and got a totally different one!! And at this point I really started to recognize the story. It's really an odd feeling. I don't make connections between different books easily but I started to feel like I've read this story before. Then the little bit of Latin culture that was flavoring the first 25% also fell away. The world went totally flat and felt like any other generic fantasy world. I wouldn't have minded the similarities so much if Nocturna really gave me a flavor of Latin culture.
The one piece of culture that I could see is the story of Sombra. I did appreciate how it related to events and how the villain arose from it. I do wish that the plot against the royal family would have tied into present circumstances better. Because I REALLY appreciated Xiomara. She was my favorite character!! I would have really loved to read her POV too. She made the end not such a sour taste in my mouth because I totally related to her teenage angst and redemption.
Cover & Title grade -> B-I really love the red mosaic tile cover design. It's gorgeous, authentic and gives the flavor of what a Latinx world should feel like. I liked a lot! The title though became very confusing for me. It references a state the world would fall into if certain criteria are met... Except that criteria isn't met in Nocturna... So uhhhh why the name?! It's just odd to me. And was rather anti-climatic as a result.
Why you may enjoy Nocturna despite its flaws?-Alfie and Finn are REAL TEENS!
By the time the real story got started I also realized that Alfie and Finn read like REAL TEENS! They make seriously dumb mistakes and don't think about the consequences at all. As a teen I actually thought about the costs and benefits of my actions so I don't relate well to this kind of selfish stupidity. But real teens very well could understand and make the same choices.
-There is no place to stop, its GO GO GO!
The action was non-stop though! The pacing was just so speedy. They'd get into trouble but slip right out of it. Never once did the Prince think to go to his teacher who had handled this trouble before. His reasoning though does fit the stupid teen mold so I went with it.
-A cliffhanger free ending is a TOTAL YES!
Oddly this reads as a standalone! Just like the story that it reminds me of Nocturna ends without a cliffhanger. Their plan has a few hiccups but for the most part is executed flawlessly. I did feel like this hate to love romance felt a little more organic between our Prince and thief. It isn't my favorite OTP but I did feel like the feelings between them developed over time and not suddenly.
-An emotion based magic system is a MEGA-WOW!
I REALLY loved the magic system. While the face changing felt a bit of a contrivance just to get Finn into trouble the Prince's magic was really neat. I loved how he could see magic through its colors and adapt to anything because of that knowledge. I totally don't regret reading Nocturna just to have experienced it.
Sure Nocturna reminds me of another fantasy I've read, and you too may find a lot of parallels, but it is full of action, daring-do and romance. I'm interested to see where the A Forgery of Magic series goes in the next book. But please... Will we finally get back to the brother?!
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⋆ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Plot & Pacing
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Thanks to Edelweiss and Balzer + Bray for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review. It has not influenced my opinions.______________________
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